Hayam Abdel Baky
Egypt
hayamabdelbaky@yahoo.com
Artist's Statement
“In Peace and Mercy”
It was a pleasure for me to hear about the idea of
drawing on the donkey because I have lots of memories
with the donkey as I grew up in the countryside. The
donkey was a dear friend to me. I talked with it and
went with it to the field, feed it, rode on it and
played with it. It shared a great part of my life when I
was little and I still have all the memories with it and
with my countryside till now.
When the donkey came to my studio I started to touch it
and talk to it about our stories together and I started
to feel that I went back in time. So I decided to draw
our stories on it when we were young as it was a part of
it, listening to us it saw and felt with its
intelligence everything around. I started to tell it my
story to remind it of those memories. And despite its
silence I felt that it was sharing the same feelings, of
the childhood stories, playing, the innocence, feeling
of freedom and the love of the places we went to, the
lovely and bright colors of the countryside.
My donkey is a part of my story, it knows it very well
and it is very nice that it is bearing it on its body
from outside as it bore it from inside its body, inside
its tender heart. So our story is a witness of an era
when the human being was kind to the animal and
considered it part of history and would always be proud
that it was always next him.
Big Donkey:
35,000LE (US$5,075.00)
Small Donkey:
10,000LE (US$ 1,450.00)
sold
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